Every day this summer, thousands of Catholic devotees have streamed into a 12th-century church in Assissi to pay their respects to a tech-savvy teenager seen by some as the patron saint of the internet.
Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 from leukemia at the age of 15, was officially recognized as a saint by Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, bestowing the Catholic Church’s highest honor on a millennial for the first time.
Sometimes also dubbed “God’s influencer,” St. Carlo’s emerging iconography often depicts him holding a laptop. It is a nod to his hobby—computer programming—a skill he used to spread the Gospel, designing websites for religious institutions and a personal website cataloging miracles.
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